[debian-mysql] MariaDB in Debian proper?

[Jonathan Aquilina]

then in that case why not setup mysql-server as a dependency for MariaDB?

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Kristian Nielsen
<knielsen at knielsen-hq.org>wrote:

> Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > it was mentioned to give a user choice as to what to use. i have seen for
> > instance when you install gnome aside kde it asks you what desktop
> manager
> > you want to use. Wouldnt something like that be needed in this situation?
>
> Gnome and KDE are non-conflicting, you can install both at the same time.
>
> The situation with MariaDB and MySQL is different. MariaDB is essentially a
> different version of MySQL; the binaries are named the same, the libraries
> are
> named the same, it runs on the same default port, etc. So only one can be
> installed at a time.
>
> In Ubuntu 9.04 for example, there is a similar situation, since they have
> eg. mysql-server-5.0 and mysql-server-5.1 packages, both of which
> "provides:"
> mysql-server. The situation with our MariaDB Debian packages is the same,
> both
> mariadb-server-5.1 and mysql-server-5.1 "provides:" mysql-server.
>
>  - Kristian.
>



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Jonathan Aquilina
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